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The Lotus Readers
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Writer and Book Blogger, love to read crime, historical and literary fiction. Member of Squad POD Collective. Review requests to lotustherapylincs@outlook.com Visit website www.lotuswritingtherapy.com
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Best Reads October 2025

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Best Reads October 2025
October brought many several wonderful things, as birthday months so often do. As always we went away, this time for two weeks in Dumfries and Galloway for book shopping at Wigtown and fishing for …
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November 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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A Complicated Woman by Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem

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A Complicated Woman by Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem
“I never could′ve told you anything I long for While I was in the water swimming ‘gainst tides we′re taught to Take it in our stride, laugh it off, take it on the chin just right Don’t …
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November 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the second hand bookshops of Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway. I’ve filled some gaps in my collection, with a couple of surprises too. Can’t wait to go back.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Isn’t this the perfect bookshop? The famous The Bookshop in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway. Spent a happy hour browsing here.
#booksky #thebookshopwigtown #wigtownbooktown #bookbrowsing
October 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Big breakfast while I work on my #spotlight post for Ramsay Campbell’s new novel #AnEchoOfChildren #booksky
October 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves

Jimmy Perez is back!

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The Killing Stones by Anne Cleeves
I can barely contain my happiness at being back in the world of Jimmy Perez, this time in the Orkney islands where he grew up. Jimmy is living with partner Willow Reeves, who’s both his boss and he…
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October 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Better late than never ..

Best Reads September 2025

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October 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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This week’s reading chair, with a view. #readingnook #readingchair #booksky
October 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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We so agree with this!

'The atmosphere created by the author along with the description of the body make it one of the most horrifying I’ve read, emphasising that this is a human being clearly emaciated and treated with extreme violence.'

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October 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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'I love the idea of thin places, that ghosts are not necessarily trying to haunt you, they’re just going about their business. In fact you’re probably as much of a fright for them as they are for you. It’s just that the veil between us and them has worn so thin...'

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October 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Deadman’s Pool by Kate Rhodes

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Deadman’s Pool by Kate Rhodes
Winter storms lash the Isles of Scilly, when DI Ben Kitto ferries the islands’ priest to St Helen’s. Father Michael intends to live as a pilgrim in the ruins of an ancient church on the uninhabited…
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October 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Sunday Spotlight: Banned Books Week - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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Banned Books Week – Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Defending free expression has become a challenge. Words seem to matter more than ever and their impact. Just having an X account in the past week has been painful if you have empathy. It’s a battle…
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October 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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I pre-ordered this months ago so I’m very happy to see it turn up today. I’m looking forward to catching up with this writer. #allthewaytotheriver #lizgilbert #booksky @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Thank you for this #bookpost I’ve been looking forward to @valmcdermid's latest #KarenPirie thriller #SilentBones - out 23rd October from @BooksSphere

I can’t wait to catch up with the Historic Cases Unit with the lovely @Squadpod3 gang next month.

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September 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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WWW Wednesday 17th September 2025: what am I reading? | #WWWWednesday #amreading #bookrecommendations #BookSky 💙📚 portobellobookblog.com/2025/09/17/w... - via @portybelle.bsky.social
WWW Wednesday 17th September 2025: what am I reading? | #WWWWednesday #amreading #bookrecommendations #BookSky 💙📚
What am I currently reading? I’m reading The Names by Florence Knapp which come highly recommended by pretty much everyone I know who has read it! I am nearly finished the audiobook of Made i…
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September 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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'The historical silencing of women has clearly created an appetite for angry and vengeful female characters that doesn’t look like it will be going away any time soon.'

Lucy Nichol explores narratives of female vengeance in Issue 107 mslexia.co.uk/magazine/lat...

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Latest Issue - Magazine : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
Latest Issue - Magazine : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
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September 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Cartoon. A doctor speaking to a heavily pregnant woman: "Well, Mrs Heath Robinson, it seems the contraptions have started"
September 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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People are raven about my latest book - read it here:
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Murder of Crows
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September 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Fantastic day at the printer recently, signing the special Indie bookshops edition of #TheChristmasClue, out @faberbooks.bsky.social 25th September. Thanks to everyone who helped me put in a very respectable signing time of 2 hours 12 minutes!
September 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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The Bride Stone by Sally Gardner

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The Bride Stone by Sally Gardner
According to our narrator, a ‘bride stone’ is a precious stone given to the groom’s family as a dowry. Sometimes though, a beautifully made fake stone was used, one they could only have valued when…
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September 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell

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Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell
There was a pivotal moment in this book that made me go cold. It sent me back twelve years when I was trying to understand how someone could treat others so badly, in what seemed like a deliberatel…
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September 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Watching You by Helen Fields

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Watching You by Helen Fields
A few of Helen Field’s characters come together in this gripping novel that starts with someone being stalked in Jupiter Artland, the park where Laura Ford’s ‘Weeping Girls’ statues are situated. T…
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August 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Dear Miss Lake by A.J.Pearce

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Dear Miss Lake by A.J. Pearce
It was lovely to be back with the gang at Woman’s Friend magazine and particularly with our narrator Emmy Lake as they enter the final and arguably most difficult stretch of WW2. After five years o…
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August 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Favourite Reads -July

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Best Books July 2025.
I’ve had a lovely reading month because even the books I had for blog tours, turned out to be fantastic reads. Any of these could easily make my end of the year list and some are by authors I’ve ne…
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August 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Death Or A Little Light Maiming by Kathy Lette

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Death or a Little Light Maiming Do Us Part by Kathy Lette
One dead husband. Three grieving widows. When she hears a man has been killed by a Great White shark, Gwen races to the beach only to find that all that remains of her husband is his swimming cap a…
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August 3, 2025 at 7:39 AM